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Were Adam and Eve sexually attracted to each other before they sinned?

Classik

Classik

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Were Adam and Eve sexually attracted to each other before they sinned?
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I don't really know what happened back there in the Garden of Eden... But it seems to me Adam and Eve only discovered sex after their eyes where opened.
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...Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh...she shall be called woman.
After that nothing took place. It was after they ate the fruit that their eyes were opened. 'Is that how we look!?'...kind of.
Now they have seen something.
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It seems to me it was at this point the attraction commenced. They saw something, didn't they? And both seeing something, Adam knew his wife.
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Does any of us have anything to add?
 
I figure that they were sexually attracted to one another because that is God's intention for a husband and a wife among other forms of attraction. They didn't have kids (that we know of) however and we know this because Man is corrupt and sinful because Adam and Eve passed on this trait that they brought unto the world had they had children before getting the boot than there would be humans that were not corrupted by their sin.
 
we dont know how long after their creation were they sinless and no children till after the fall. but attraction yes. remember adam desired a mate. god made him one.
 
But of course they would be, after all, Eve was created by God to be Adam's perfect mate. How would she not be sexually attractive to him? After all, it was God who told them, "Be fruitful and multiply."
 
I think yes, they were physically attracted to each other, and they would have had children even if they had not eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Their union would not have resulted in shame nor would they need to hide or be embarrassed by being naked.
 
We can only make assumptions because the text was not written to provide the answer to the question you are asking. Thus, we really should use caution when pondering such thoughts.
 
Classik said:
Wow! I forgot that account:thumbsup
...Except that I can see the astonishment on their faces when their eyes were opened.
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When their eyes were opened, what was it that they saw that wasn't already seen that now was an embarrassment?

Answer: Their differences.
 
This question implies sex is sinful. Sex in marriage is not sinful God made us with our sexual side.
 
reba said:
This question implies sex is sinful. Sex in marriage is not sinful God made us with our sexual side.
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It is not 'bout sin.
They were probably reluctant to act. I wonder how they were able to finally discover it...perhaps the animals opened their eyes.
 
Guess it depends it you take it literal that they were the first people about 6000 years ago and all others came from them.

I think Gen. 1 clears it more for me.

<SUP>26</SUP> Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,<SUP class=footnote value='[a]'>[a]</SUP> and over all the creatures that move along the ground.â€

<SUP id=en-NIV-27 class=versenum>27</SUP> So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. <SUP id=en-NIV-28 class=versenum>28</SUP> God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.â€

I think the above is man coming on earth, that God created both at the same time, that they were fruitful and ruled over the land.

I can't say I believe two people Adam and Eve were exact people, because in the Hebrew those names basically stand for man and woman. However, it's possible that existed and their story is the Hebrew account of their heritage, but that other people existed all around the world, just a fact that we have proof of tribes around the world dating back 75,000 years ago.

Genesis was written 1000's of years later after this account, it was common to use metaphors, parables, etc.., to explain a truth. It appears Adam and Eve probably existed during the farm age, we know that's when man started farming about 6000 years ago. Gen. 2 is the Hebrew account of their own linage. Like most tribes around the world they figured they were the only ones.

We also know Cain went and found a mate, so if he found a mate, that mate obviously had relatives, that had relatives. Certainly Cain's mate wasn't a wandering lone soul and other tribes existed.
 
Ace The 'timing ' of the earth has been in debate for ever and most likely will continue. Bet we all think we'll find out when we ask God in person! I doubt at that time it will even matter....

For myself i except the scriptures as written... My reasoning? If i dont believe Geneses why would i believe John 3:16. Salvation is not depending on my view but on His blood.

Welcome to the forums Ace got some good discussion going on.....
 
Hi Ace,

While your thoughts are good thoughts, I don't think that those were the thoughts that the writer of Genesis was trying to address.

But more to your point, do you know why the Jews hold the Temple Mound in Jerusalem as such a Holy place?

True, it is where Solomon built the first Temple to the Lord, but before that, we can also see through the Biblical text that this is the exact same place that Abraham offered up Isaac. Now then, the sages also say that it was that very location where those two events occured that the first man, Adam was formed from the dust of the earth as a careful reading of the text shows that Adam was placed in Eden, which shows that he was not formed in Eden.

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StoveBolts said:
Hi Ace,

While your thoughts are good thoughts, I don't think that those were the thoughts that the writer of Genesis was trying to address.

But more to your point, do you know why the Jews hold the Temple Mound in Jerusalem as such a Holy place?

True, it is where Solomon built the first Temple to the Lord, but before that, we can also see through the Biblical text that this is the exact same place that Abraham offered up Isaac. Now then, the sages also say that it was that very location where those two events occured that the first man, Adam was formed from the dust of the earth as a careful reading of the text shows that Adam was placed in Eden, which shows that he was not formed in Eden.

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I certainly believe Adam and Eve existed whatever their name, again if we replace their names with woman and man it gives new perspective. However, I can't disregard the fact that other tribes existed on this earth up to 75,000 years ago, with detailed histories, geneologies and records, etc...For the most part the world was covered with different tribes 6000 years ago.

For the the Gens. account is the history of the jews as they saw it. Many tribes had almost exact creation stories written long before Gens. and most have their own flood stories. Again, the fact Cain went and found a mate shows other people existed. I don't think it was from the linage of Adam and Eve as the bible is specific to those children born during that time.

That doesn't make the truths Gens was telling us less. Some may believe that Eve ate an apple, a snake in the garden, etc...I think that is just metophoric teaching us the greater truth of fallen man.

Just works for me when I can match up logic and faith and not ignore obvious scientific proof that the earth was long populated.
 
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